The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway
An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers
A celebrated biologist’s manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change
A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust
The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks
A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years
A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed